You will find what you are looking for. When we aren’t being authentic, we will never see God the way He truly is. The children of Israel didn’t really want to get to know God, they built their lives around knowing His deeds. We journey to figure out the process of knowing him, but systems are designed to be disposable.
Ep. 206: The Way, Natural and Effortless
People fall in love with the path that represents clear formulas and disciplines, but true life happens when you start following “the way” which is natural and effortless. In the New Testament, great things happened in between what was planned. Paul tells us to exercise ourselves to Godliness. Learning means doing something deliberately and repetitively to build up natural strength until it becomes a way of life. Eventually, you get to a place where you can’t imagine anything other than the character you have developed.
Ep. 205: We are getting what we are pursuing
People want to know the future because they believe that if they know what’s coming, they’ll automatically be prepared for it. The truth is, there isn’t great comfort in knowing what’s ahead, but rather there is a window of time to prepare for what you will face. People think if God would speak personally to me, I would get ready. The truth is, God is continually speaking to us through His Word, and it’s personal! We are always getting what we are pursuing.
Ep. 204: Childlike Faith
The inward journey to transitioning requires flexibility and adaptability. If you're going to stay relevant, you have to be open to change. Our tendency is, the minute we experience something frightening we make a closed definition and make conclusions. In order to remain effective, authentic, and pliable, we move towards being childlike. The gift of childlike faith is given to everyone but trust is developed through experiences.
Ep. 203: Spirit of Timidity
God has not given us a spirit of timidity. It’s not our circumstances that are the specific threat, but rather the intimidation of a worst-case scenario. Fear is a bully that functions on imagined power, but when challenged with real power, they run. Our sense of self changes when we change our perception. When we have the confidence to rest in our self-worth and self-image that comes from Jesus, we no longer have to panic under pressure.
Ep. 202: What does the word "Spirit" really mean?
What does it really mean to search the Lord with all your heart? We live our life out of our identity, self-image and self-worth. We can’t function well until tall three are all established in our hearts. Moving past the intellectual boundary of identity and seeing and experiencing your life “in God” as completely yours brings you to the concept of living in the spirit. What does the word “Spirit” really mean? How does the function of our “breath” relate to our spirit? Our breath is our life, and in the same way our spirit is our life.
Ep. 201: Walking with God
A person can’t enjoy the peace of God without experiencing the righteousness of God. Walking with God in the good times, not just in crisis, establishes our relationship with Him. When we abide in peace, even in dire circumstances, peace becomes our natural habitat or environment. When you believe who you are as an heir, the fruit of your life grows effortlessly. Having hyper-realization of your identity in Jesus sets you up for the best decisions.
Ep. 200: Living by peace, not by circumstances
God wants to bring us life, to the point where we have no way to imagine the extent of good He wants to bring to us. If we are moved by earthly circumstances, we will not have abiding peace. When you learn to live in peace, you will never revert to panic. If there are no works to accompany intentions, it reveals that there was never any intention of putting new information into practice. People tend to live life by “sheer will” relying on human strength and miss the power of the Holy Spirit.
Ep. 199: How to Renew Your Mind
How you think determines who you are. However, renewing your mind isn’t just about how you think, for that gets into willpower and putting forth effort. Renewing your mind and believing in your heart includes intention and conceiving God’s promise in your heart. Once it’s conceived, there is a capacity that this is possible. Then it turns into a definitive decision that you are going to change the quality of your life based on the fact that you are created in the likeness of God.
Ep. 198: Meditating: Creating the possibility
Every time you have a failure it diminishes your capacity to try again, so you find a socially acceptable excuse. The turnaround happens when you receive grace giving you the capacity to see and believe. First, gather knowledge, then conceive what you would look like and feel like in that new reality. Meditation makes it believable and experiential. The capacity for that now expands. Capacity is the first moment of a possibility. Make the definitive decision, I will experience it and then enter into the authority to receive and take it into your life.
Ep. 197: Removing Yourself Out of Fear and Disbelief
How do you move out of fear and unbelief? God wanted a family that had the capability to give and receive love. If your love isn’t received, it creates a vacuum. The words you are speaking are what you expect in your heart. You are always blessing and cursing throughout your day and your life, based on how you use your God-given authority. Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flows the connection to the entire universe!
Ep. 196: The Law of Attraction
If there is anything is true about the law of attraction, it means we use authority to send away anything that is not benefiting our lives and put on and “call it forth into your life” everything that is provided from Jesus. In doing this, you are “binding and loosing” and using your authority as a believer to manifest God’s best into your life. Now, with your eyes open, something internally changes, and you understand how to walk this out in your journey of life.
Ep. 195: Staying on the path of righteousness
When we follow the gentle whisper of God’s voice every day, we remain on that path of righteousness where there are no chances of stumbling. Allowing the feelings of being overwhelmed is an internal form of resistance, and we won’t continue to move forward. Like the pearl of great price, if you value God and your quality of life enough, you won’t give up until you find it. When you love righteousness, it is a representation of your heart.
Ep. 194: Get on your game
The world is changing and entering into a time where we can’t be off of our game. Everyone is experiencing what it means to navigate within the land of the unknown, and with intention, we can learn to live above our emotions and live as an overcomer. Establishing a firm foundation through wisdom from 2 Peter 1, we make it our pursuit to put off our old nature and put on the new. We become strong as we connect to God in such a way that knowledge becomes our experience.
Ep. 193: Receiving Grace for the Vision
Having a vision is simply developing a clear mental picture of what you are believing for. When that is established, grace works from your heart and becomes power, strength and a capacity to become what you believe. We receive grace in direct proportion to how much we need for that belief. The more we believe, the more grace we receive to give us strength. We hold on to the promise, without ever controlling the method or the process.
Ep. 192: Escaping Negative Self-Perception
Most people expect life to be hard. Any time we lose our ability to live through God’s view and see what He sees, we don’t experience our wide-open spaces. When we align our opinion with His opinion, we escape the prison of negative self-perception. We acknowledge a reality that is beyond what is possible. As we persuade our hearts of who God says we are and perceive ourselves the way He sees us, we will experience resurrection life.
Ep. 190: What it means to be a co-creator
We think we are observing the world around us, but we are actually in interplay with our world. We aren’t just observing, we are co-creators, and the world is different because we are in it. Sin is any belief, opinion, any concept of yourself, and any behavior that minimizes who God is that limits your living life to the fullest. If we don’t think of observation as co-creation, God’s promises are limited to being one-dimensional. Every thought, emotion, and belief are affecting your world and the outcomes.
Ep. 189: The Good Shepherd
If life isn’t looking like you thought it might, or should be, we are called to trust in the Lord with all of our heart. Most believers say this, move toward this, and then default to doing it their own way. Our perception changes when we focus on something we trust more than God. The fight within our mind is to conquer the beliefs we have that aren’t based on the finished work of Jesus. God doesn’t necessarily offer us a specific map with detailed direction for our lives, but gives us signposts along the way as we follow Him as our Good Shepherd.
Ep. 188: Harmonizing Your Values
Harmonizing your values with God and His Word starts with righteousness. Making Jesus as your rock, the solid foundation in which you can trust is the first step in accepting the process. When you are settled and steadfast in the trust you can have peace because you have full realization of his resources, they are yours. Then, as the path is in front of you, there is no need for an agenda. Grace empowers you along the way, and even when waves come crashing, you are firmly established.
Ep. 187: Your Perception is Your Interpretation
Truth is absolute, but the application is a variable. My relationship with God can be measured by how my relationships with people are. My perception is my interpretation. Whatever we insist we see in a person, it what we will see in reality, and that’s what I’ll notice. Any time perception has been created by gossip, rumours and slander, I have volunteered to be deceived.